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The study, which was ordered by influential US military adviser Andrew Marshall, suggests that climate change should become an issue of national security rather than just a scientific discussion.
It was with a great sense of loss when I heard of influential economics blogger Doris "Tanta" death. Burma: Condolence message from a Burmese blogger monk
S · Eliot is one of the most influential poet literary critic in the 20 th century.
Colin Clarke was a pivot of real class, becoming more influential as the game evolved.
But marketing alone cannot explain why "onanism" and related terms began to show up in the great eighteenth-century encyclopedias or why one of the most influential physicians in France, the celebrated Samuel Auguste David Tissot, took up the idea of masturbation as a dangerous illness or why Tissot's 1760 work, L'Onanisme, became an instant European literary sensation. Me, Myself, and I

Evidently, for many influentials in world music, the art is a question of conquering and ruling the earth, no less.
The limitations of party competition Schumpeter's redefinition of democracy as a method has been extremely influential.
Those key players include representatives of peak industry and business groups, diplomats and influential negotiators and go-betweens on the trade talk circuit.
Le Monde, read by some 2 million people every day, is one of the country's most influential newspapers with extensive contacts in the French establishment and an unwaveringly intellectual tone.
He's the man who helped persuade hawkish editors at influential Newsweek magazine to oppose the Vietnam War.
Behind-the-scenes assistance came from influential figures in politics and the arts, including U. S. Sen.
Although she was not a professional politician, her views were influential in shaping government policy.
The influential evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith coined the culinary term “primordial pizza” to capture the spottiness of this idea. SuperCooperators
Those facts were influential in solving the problem.
If the Greek MSS and lectionaries are any indication of what the church has accepted as its written authority -- and if the writings of influential Christian leaders whose work shaped the canon mean anything -- then Mark 16:9-20 should be accepted as the ending of the Gospel of Mark. Easter Sunday School
It's been a long time since such a collection of punks, misfits and miscreants gathered together to worship such an influential act.
One of the most influential British indie groups of recent years have announced they are to split.
Ashbee and his influential friends met or corresponded almost daily to pursue their tastes.
But I knew I would get strong support from a lot of influential people.
Another influential kind of noncognitivism called “prescriptivism” claims that this sentence is really a veiled command whose true meaning should be captured using the imperative mood: “Don't steal!” Moral Anti-Realism
In 1969, he was elected to the presidency of the Association of Chambers of Commerce in Turkey, a highly influential and semipolitical position, but his Islamist policies led to his rapid ejection from the post by Demirel, by then prime minister. The Guardian World News
An influential government advisory panel yesterday recommended an end to long-standing opposition to manned space flight. Times, Sunday Times
Even comparatively powerless and uninfluential lay people must accept some responsibility for the situation.
Largely as a result of these influential criticisms, the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated.
But it also is true that neither candidate came from a wealthy, politically influential family or a powerful political machine.
He perceived that the Liberal ministry had offended certain influential sections by appearing too demiss or too unenterprising in foreign affairs. Archaism.
Critics, TV executives and its devoted audience raved about the show, making it seem more influential in Britain than perhaps it really was.
Learn how to deal with the non-business influentials of your CEO life-shareholders, the press, government officials, community leaders, etc.
Although the trend's most recent period of reference is the '80s, when demure collars topped many a blousy shirt, observers are quick to note that the more influential time is the early '60s, when JFK led men's fashion trends with trim collars that sat close to the chest. The Incredible Shrinking Collar
We are all aware that the Obamas have a wonderful marriage, and his uxoriousness is the talk of all the women's magazines; but is she really influential when it comes to surging in Afghanistan; bombing Iran; and the political haggling over taxes? Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
A lifelong civil servant who wraps his sang froid and political toughness in French courtliness, Mr. Trichet generally gets high marks for the way he has managed the E.C.B. He may be the most influential public official on the Continent, the person who most embodies the dream of a single coin for the European realm. NYT > Home Page
She is the single most influential person in my life aside from my parents. Times, Sunday Times
Méliès's illusionist tricks were wildly popular and influential - and frequently pirated.
Her life as a distinguished art critic and writer and as an influential politician seemed to be over. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
As with other protectionist schemes, it is really about taxing Americans and imposing price floors to benefit a politically influential industry.
But some school groups said the influential lawyers' group shouldn't be so quick to condemn the tough student discipline measures.
They will have to attempt to correct this slide without two of their most influential players. Times, Sunday Times
Children develop a pecking order, not as unidimensional as the dominance hierarchies of chickens and elephants, but nonetheless an influential youth-driven social order with a force of its own that each child can accept or reject, and that can accept or reject each child. Sean Slade: The Child Walking Through Schoolhouse Doors Enters a World
Obama is going to need a powerful and influential pointman to shepherd healthcare legislation through the Senate. Senate Staffers Begin Mulling Health Care Reform As Part Of Stimulus Package [UPDATED WITH CORRECTION]
It must examine the incentives entrenched by laws, regulations and conventions that have made the City so influential. Times, Sunday Times
Many albums are reissued for "reasons" - Band X was ahead of its time, criminally underappreciated, it's influential yet out of print, whatevs.
Through his connections with influential figures in the media, he was able to elicit favorable press for his clients.
What effect does American ginseng flower have? Influential to second liver?
That lobby is a curious mixture of interests, reflected in influential sections of the newspaper world, with little in common except their hostility to Europe.
The manager also looked to the future with a vow to continue improving despite the loss of such an influential player. Times, Sunday Times
Vishnu is a middle child of an influential family. REVIEW: Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
A comprehensive sourcebook for the highly influential postwar development in American art, this book presents key texts from the movement as well as a wide selection of illustrations.
She explains the origin of influential ancient scripts, such as Uncial and Insular Majuscule, magical terms that evoke the scent of candlewax and of sulfurous disputes over the proper date of Easter. Handwriting Is on the Wall
I attended a Catholic school in the most unstructured, uninfluential way one can attend school.
I've always been a strong advocate of public service broadcasting, such an important element in this influential means of communication.
If the model democratic citizen is active, participating, and influential, is this what the ordinary man aspires to be?
An influential minority report by Derek Senior advocated a map involving solely two-tier regional authorities, 35 in number.
The swirl of rumour includes reports that hold the powerful and influential drug cartels responsible.
Many people, especially those who write articles on this subject for Wikipedia, would say the Magna Carta is the most influential and important foundation of constitutional law. Sophie Pollitt-Cohen: June 15: King John Signs Magna Carta
Who have been the most influential people in your life and why? Times, Sunday Times
In the latest issue of Symmetry, a magazine about particle physics, I've traced the chain of scientific developments in the 1930s and 1940s that inspired Williamson to write his "Seetee" tales -- if not the first, certainly the most influential stories to explore the physics of "contraterrene" (CT) matter. Boing Boing
I am presented with an endless parade of hugely influential people on Today. Times, Sunday Times
Western models were influential because they met a need for a system that could accommodate diversity.
One influential argument about urban decline has been put forward by Fothergill and Gudgin and their associates.
She's the daughter of a journalist, an influential man.
The establishment of a botanical laboratory at Buitenzorg in Java was particularly influential.
This review attempts to discuss the effectuality of surface plastic deformation strengthening treatment and the role of main influential factors for different original microstructure of steels.
But the influential position of giant corporations varies significantly from industry to industry.
He procured girls of 16 and 17 to be mistresses for his influential friends.
The previous Eccentric Club, started in 1890 by Jack Harrison, a theatrical costumier and the father of popular musical comedy actresses Phyllis Monkman, Dorothy Monkman and Beryl Harrison, from its humble beginnings in Shaftesbury Avenue rose to become one of the most influential artistic and business establishments in Britain as well as one of its most generous charities. Archive 2008-08-01
With its bad language and schoolboy humour, Alfred Jarry's first and most influential play is the story of Mum and Dad Ubu, two gloriously evil megalomaniacs, who spur each other on to overthrow the regime.
In such a state, Greeley said in his influential editorials, a 160-acre homestead could produce an ample living.
You say we should "deconstruct" all truth claims (a founder of "deconstructionism," Paul de Man. whose writings are still influential in American universities, was a Belgian fascist) because there are no facts, only opinions? Fascism's Second Spring
All the fossils that had been called Pithecanthropus—for example, Java and Peking men—were now labeled Homo erectus, as Clark Howell had suggested in an influential 1960 paper. Ancestral Passions
It is important to note that we often have to look beyond academic philosophy to find the women who were influential social philosophers.
This dietary effect on reproductive hormone metabolism may be especially influential to the peripubertal heifer, such as those used in this study.
This paper introduces the production formulation of the coatings in question, performance specification, influential factors and application.
The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a considerable antipathy to trade unionism among influential public opinion.
Even his key Cabinet ally, the influential business secretary Peter Mandelson, said Brown must show more "razzmatazz," to entice voters disillusioned with his leadership. WBAY Action 2 News
Nevertheless, polls are influential in forming public opinion and attitudes.
He has his own ways of beating the system, making sure that he has good relationships with influential people.
Stephen Crane is one of the most talented and influential American novelists at the end of the 19th century.
The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war.
However, anarchism remained an influential competitor to the Communist movement until well into the late 1920s.
One becomes a government bureaucrat or politician and rises through the ranks by developing influential connections and getting help from personal networks.
Turk's work was included in the influential exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection in 1997 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
The government is creating a force that will suppress the criminally influential, but many have escaped the blacklist whether through influence or virtue.
As you might expect, some behaviours are more influential than others but all behaviours have a direct impact on other people.
The causal theory of the basing relation is a very influential theory but counterexamples of the gypsy-lawyer style constitute a major objection to this kind of theory.
Imagine if more and more people were capable of either making or identifying with a list of 50 rabbis, other Jewish teachers, or any spiritual teachers who they would describe as meaningfully influential in either their own lives or in the world as a whole. Brad Hirschfield: Who Are Your Spiritual Teachers?
Lewis was a leading member of an influential group of Catholic writers who flourished between the wars.
Among the most influential recent studies on Albrecht Durer is that authored by Joseph Koerner.
Her parents love was one of the reasons she had not been married off at some young age to a wealthy, influential stranger.
His influential essay relies centrally on the fact that sensations are transmitted from Walter's body to the reader's.
An influential strand in the economic analysis of law seeks to transmit a particular message.
He always tries to get in with the most influential people.
Of all the major versions of humanism, the Renaissance humanism that developed in Italy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries has been the most influential.
But he is easily the most visible behaviorist, based on citation frequency and surveys of influential behavioral scientists.
The President's wife is often politically astute, ambitious and very influential in White House policy decisions.
The Women's Liberation or Feminist Movement was influential in bringing women's issues into public consciousness.
It was a seminal collection of work, and he was a forefather to the surrealist movement, as I later found out, and was deeply influential to Marcel Duchamp.
In the inherited and still influential constructions of Africa, the continent designates difference and alterity.
At that time I was introduced to a laywoman who was influential in the Catholic church in that electoral district.
Far more worrying is the veiled victim-blaming indulged in by influential environmental experts who ought to know better.
To retain its influential place in Polish society, the church has to decide which way its future lies.
He is a hugely influential figure in global broadcasting. The Sun
This shows that slope form and soil moisture status are particularly influential in determining erosion rates.
One influential school of thought focuses on the effects of oxidation reactions brought about by active oxygen species generated by photochemical reactions involving blue and UV light.
Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. Les Miserables
The nature of the access road to the site and adjoining development can be influential with regard to market potential.
To be successful, a former member must have served on an influential committee and acquired expertise on controversial issues.
Why have these discredited ways of thinking become so influential once again?
The Women's Liberation or Feminist Movement was influential in bringing women's issues into public consciousness.
The new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, has an influential research section, with a very diverse programme of projects.
There was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it behooves us to look at them briefly.
While Graham is a popular figure in evangelical circles and neutral with the general public, Robertson is relatively uninfluential with evangelicals and unpopular with the general public.
Eating diets that consist of only raw, uncooked foods is a small but influential trend.
Those facts were influential in solving the problem.
While officials happily turned a blind eye to cyberporn, they could also be bribed, in an election year, by Rabinder's political enemies -- and bribed once again, as it happens, by his mother, an influential politician -- to secure his release. StarTribune.com rss feed
The air force was supported by the new and politically influential aerospace industry.
But his most influential was to transform the way people looked at jazz, to transform the genre into a true modern art with all the complexities that can be found in modernist theater and painting. The Reinvention of Jazz
Undoubtedly, the most influential school of historical linguistics is that of the Neogrammarians, one of the main spokesmen being Hermann Paul.
The influential balletomanes associated with the Russian companies were limited and conservative in the extreme in their attitude to music.
He was gaming the Time magazine most influential person poll.
He's a very influential player in the set-up. The Sun
Dan Dorfman, the influential financial columnist, was fired by Money magazine, the magazine's managing editor said Wednesday.
Owning a large audience, Robert Lee Frost is considered as the most influential, the most popular and the most respectful poet in the 20th century in America.
Zoff was originally dismissed as a crank, but his theories later became very influential.
He sat under the most influential teacher in his field.
Her father, an influential owner-editor murdered four years ago, was Greek Orthodox, her paternal grandmother a famous Druze poet.
The President's wife is often politically astute, ambitious and very influential in White House policy decisions.
The school has proven extraordinarily influential in Hollywood, and includes many of the town's senior executives and creatives among its alumni.
It was a temporary presence, albeit an influential one. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
According to JewishVirtualLibrary.org and substantiated by 'The Blood libel legend: a casebook in anti-Semitic folklore,' a 1991 book by Alan Dundes, an influential Roman Catholic magazine titled 'Civilta Cattolica' in 1881 revived the blood libel accusation, going on to write a series of articles forwarding the fraudulent allegation. Blood Libel Claim By Sarah Palin Causes Controversy
Amid the muddle, Australia and New Zealand, the region's most influential powers, stood aghast as outrage followed outrage.
Various groups were influential in shaping public policy.
The West has gradually relaxed its hostile attitude to this influential state.
What was relevant, however, I think, is that if the leading and most influential Catholic weekly in Poland, which has close ties with the Church hierarchy and which has been shaping public opinion of the Catholic community since 1945, can be qualified as "idolatrously philo-Semitic," it gives — I presume — some kind of evidence that something did substantially change in Poland as far as the Catholic attitude toward the Jews is concerned. 'Shoah' and Poland
The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a considerable antipathy to trade unionism among influential public opinion.
It became plain yesterday that some influential Conservatives are still unconvinced. Times, Sunday Times
It has been a huge success and no less than such an influential 18th-century garden deserves. Times, Sunday Times
The exhibition brings together for the first time finished works, watercolours and sketches by the landscape painter which illustrates just how innovative and influential he was.
Its writers are clearly anti-establishment and spare no one, whether they are powerful political figures, prima donna actresses or influential actors.
All inductees, whose seminal work has been influential in the medical and scientific worlds, are pioneers in their respective fields.
The scientistic rationale was particularly influential in the creation of modern economic theory.
But even a rhetorical commitment to sending back the money was influential, not least in the political development of Frederick Douglass, as we shall see.
Thereafter he continued to be an influential committee-man until he returned to Ireland as a parliamentary commissioner in June 1649.
Not only did it redefine art, it did so in hugely influential ways. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most famous musicians of the 20th century, he was first known as a cornet player, then as a trumpet player, and toward the end of his career he was best known as a vocalist and influential jazz singers. OffBeat
He arrived in Paris in 1681 and by 1688 had gained an influential clientele at court.
Amylose content ( AC ) is one of the key influential factors.
So, what do you think is the most important and influential car ever to be sold in Britain?
This proposal was rejected by an influential set of bondholders. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, several influential commentators offer a contrary assessment that links globalization to new forms of cultural expression.
London: The Royal Academy's best rooms look even more handsome than usual with the installation of "Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy," an exhibition celebrating the quincentenary of the influential architect's birth. Palladio's Oeuvre: Majestic, Beautiful, But Also Functional
This can be seen as a prolegomenon to making wise women's theories influential.
We had prominent citizens and influential groups cable the Prime Minister and the provincial Premier.
The other, still more influential, was Stoicism.
Now, an increasingly influential and literate middle class was sharing in making it and in the demand for it.
A quarter of a century on, the clergyman remains a powerful and influential figure even in death.
The program has gained the support of several influential businessmen.
The religious conservative vote is perhaps more influential in South Carolina than in any state.
Even David Silva's effervescence seemed to have been quenched, while Samir Nasri has looked much more like the half-drowned butterfly of the second half of last season than the player whose devastatingly penetrative form for Arsenal up to Christmas 2010 persuaded City's recruiters – and just about everyone else in English football – that he was about to become one of the Premier League's most influential performers. Manchester City and Liverpool need a solution for striking flaws | Richard Williams
Having failed to defeat McCreevy at home, it seems De Rossa is bent on an act of national sabotage by wrecking his chances of securing an influential post on the Commission.
One influential local bishop warned that women who sought abortion would be excommunicated.
While Mills has yet to prove that he can leap tall buildings in a single bound, there's no doubt that he is one of the most important and influential DJs in the history of the world.
The plan is to list as many influential Scottish people as we can think of. Times, Sunday Times
There is no evidence to support the assertion that he was an important and influential teacher.
For some time, charming Pessel Cohen (c. 1776 – after 1804, who adopted the name Philippine around 1800), a descendant of the wealthy Bernhard family, was very influential. Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century.
But while few people noticed, he invented one of the 20th century's more influential religions, helped launch '60s-style sex-and-nature neopaganism, and was a major force behind the first modern libertarian zine.
They were 'omen-divining wizards', 'consiglieri for the wealthy, educated, and influential'. The Times Literary Supplement
The Theology of Arithmetic may have been most influential in its attempt to set up an equivalence between the pagan gods and the numbers in the decad, which was picked up later by Iamblichus and Proclus (Kahn 2001, 116). Pythagoreanism
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer and one of the most influential couturiers of the 20th century, died aged 87.
If the 'sena' is so much concerned with the society, they should visit hospitals, courts, government offices, railway stations where the common man really need help of influential people in getting the work done. Rediff.com
I consider two influential ways in which the rationality of actors' deliberations has been brought into question. Choice, Rationality, and Social Theory
In many societies, for example, manufacturing capital is more influential than it is in Britain.
Though he holds no official post, he is seen as the most influential politician in the state.
In Los Angeles the homophile group One Inc. began publishing One, an influential early gay periodical.
Episcopal elections were not always peaceful, especially if tension arose between influential families or groups.
Notably, Hamilton was one of the most influential figures in children's literature in the 20th century.
Is it possible to determine who are the most influential individuals in terms of either their ideas or actions?
Aegidius Romanus, more commonly known as Giles of Rome, was one of the most influential of high papalist theologians in the latter half of the thirteenth century and early part of the fourteenth century.
Now, of course, there are a number of poets, by no means uninfluential, who read Chinese and Japanese and who are philosophically Buddhist or Taoist or both.
Rucellai's famous formal innovation is likewise significant here, for his is one of the earliest and most influential examples of versi sciolti, or unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.
The individual voter cannot be very influential, just one vote in millions. After Thatcher
The Rev. Rick Warren, who will give the invocation, is the most influential pastor in the United States, and a choice that has already caused problems for Obama. For inauguration prayer, Obama splits ticket; controversy erupts over inclusion of Rick Warren
Thus not least of the pleasures afforded by Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style -- a comparatively small but thoroughly entertaining and subtly instructive exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York -- is to be reminded that once upon a time, and not so long ago, the most influential style-setters actually owned their haute couture and bijoux. Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion?
Do hearing people tend to occupy more influential positions in technology than do deaf people?
These opinions do not constitute a skeptical epistemology of the sort found in Montaigne's “Apology for Raymond Sebond” or in the more systematic and more openly Pyrrhonist (but far less influential) treatise Quod nihil scitur/That Nothing Is Known (1581) by Francisco Sanches, the son of Portuguese conversos who was reared and educated in France and taught in the medical faculty at Toulouse. Loss of Faith
He was neither influential on policy, a significant thinker on Germany, or a model of the freedom-is-truth ideal he propounded.
The Nizam is a Sunni Mahomedan, but most of his subjects are Hindus, and of the Mahomedans some of the most influential are Shias. Indian Unrest
Since that day Crossgar have produced a priceless team player and an influential vice-captain, a player quite capable of handling himself and at the same time frightening the life out of opponents.
‘But we're very influential and important people,’ I say, with great mock gravity.
If the model democratic citizen is active, participating, and influential, is this what the ordinary man aspires to be?
A number of the chancellor's senior party allies - including some influential state premiers - have begun to hint that he should consider stepping down after seven years in power.
Lately it's seemed like Old Home Days for Toneburst, the influential artcore junglist collective that was a locus of Boston's underground dance scene in the mid '90s. Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
Neuro-linguistic programming, in short termed by surgeons as NLP, is basically something that encompasses neurology, language and programming, the three main influential components that produces human experience. EzineArticles
Not so many years ago, internet companies were small and pretty uninfluential. Times, Sunday Times
Marx was clearly the most influential of all the socialist writers.
The enfant terrible of the symbolist movement, he wrote some of the 19th century's most visionary and influential poetry and prose before abandoning writing at the age of 19.
He was instantly recognizable in the small but influential circle he kept.
Within the political in-crowd are some extremely influential figures.
A new synthetic method of 2-Amino-6-Chloropurine using phosphorus pentachloride as halogenating agent is introduced. The halogenating agent and temperature influential factors are discussed.
The latter player was to be very influential in the backs, his distribution and kicking being quite peerless all afternoon - he kicked six out of six conversions and deservedly won the man-of-the-match award.

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